One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

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When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

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